Ontological Terror : Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the'Negro question'is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for think...
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Duke University Press Books
2018
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